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25 December 1941 (USA)
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Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play. full summary | add synopsis
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A life in the theater
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Fredric March | ... | Lucius 'Luke' Drake |
 | Loretta Young | ... | Jane Drake |
 | Robert Benchley | ... | Eddie Turner |
| Allyn Joslyn | ... | William Dudley, Jr. |
| Eve Arden | ... | Virginia Cole |
| Helen Westley | ... | Emma Harper |
| Joyce Compton | ... | Beulah |
| Tim Ryan | ... | Mac, the Policeman |
| Olaf Hytten | ... | Alfred, the Butler |
| Dorothy Adams | ... | Betsy, the Maid |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Collins, the Actor |
| Andrew Tombes | ... | Billy Wheeler / Pierce |
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85 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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After a night at a roadside gas station and motel, Mr. Drake (Fredric March) asks Mrs. Drake (Loretta Young) to pay for her room. She says that she's out of cash, so she'll have to use her credit card. The use of the term "credit card" in this 1941 movie is curious. The first use of the term "credit card" is attributed to Edward Bellamy in his 1887 utopian novel, Looking Backward, but the first actual credit card (not to be confused with a single-vendor "charge card" issued by department stores, airlines, and the like) didn't come along until the Diners Club card was introduced in 1950. Obviously, the terms were being used interchangeably even before the likes of Diners Club, Carte Blanche, American Express, and various bank-issued credit cards appeared on the scene.
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[last lines, at the end of the play's premiere]
Luke Drake: It's a smash hit, Eddie -- it'll run five years!
Jane Drake: Ladies and gentlemen! This will have the shortest run of any of Mr. Drake's plays...
[gasps from audience]
Luke Drake: No, no, no. Five years!
Jane Drake: It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God. And I'm sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be... a boy.
[Luke faints]
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Luke Drake: It's a smash hit, Eddie -- it'll run five years!
Jane Drake: Ladies and gentlemen! This will have the shortest run of any of Mr. Drake's plays...
[gasps from audience]
Luke Drake: No, no, no. Five years!
Jane Drake: It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God. And I'm sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be... a boy.
[Luke faints]
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"Bedtime Story" is an enjoyable comedy with a plot that seems to have been borrowed from other, most successful films. This 1941 Columbia release is fun to watch because it is seldom seen and the brilliant cast that was put together for it. Frederic March and Loretta Young are wonderful as the sparring Drakes, a theatrical couple, at the center of the story. The Broadway scene of the times is captured in the film.
Alexander Hall directed this stylish comedy with sure hand. Mr. Hall got excellent performances all around, especially of the two principals. Frederic March was at the height of his movie career and he shows why he was one of the best actors working in films at the time. Loretta Young also has some wonderful moments in the film as the suffering wife of Luke Drake, the playwright of the moment.
As with other comedies of that period, the supporting cast in "Bedtime Story" shows some accomplished actors of the caliber of Eve Arden, Allyn Joslyn, Helen Westley, and Joyce Compton, among others.
The film will delight classic movie fans.